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Its birth, simultaneously with the repeal of the Missouri compromise, was not an accident, as any one could see who had studied the tactics of the slave-holders.
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Julian argues that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was a deliberate act by slaveholders to further their agenda.
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No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
And the misfortune of this legislation is heightened by the probability of its continuance; for it is not easy to uproot a body of laws once accepted by a people, however mischievous in their character.
It was unrecognized by both parties, but it made its advent, and the men who pointed its way quietly served notice upon the country of their ulterior purposes.
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